[Catalyst] Re: flash with DBIC session storage

[Bill Moseley]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 11:21:56PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> > User visits page A.
> > User visits page B in another tab.
> > User submits form A.
> > User submits form B.
> > A updates the flash.
> > B updates the flash.
> > Page A2 loads with whatever flash won.
> > Page B2 loads with whatever flash won.
> 
> Keeping implicit state on the server blows. News at 11.
> 
> (The right way: don’t use flash. Put the stuff somewhere
> where you can give it a URI and send the user to that
> address.)

So simple case:  client posts which updates a user "Foo".  You
redirect after post and want to display 'User "Foo" was updated' (or
something you need to store server-side between the post and the
redirect).

What's your approach?  Always pass around a session id in the URL?
On redirects pass an unique id to get at that request-specific
message?

If so, how do you manage orphans, say if the redirect never happens?



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Bill Moseley
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